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Creativity in Gifted Education: Contributions from Vygotsky and Piaget Creative Education, 2015, 6, 64-70 Published Online January 2015 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/ce http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ce.2015.61005 Creativity in Gifted Education: Contributions from Vygotsky and Piaget Tania Stoltz, Fernanda Hellen Ribeiro Piske, Maria de Fátima Quintal de Freitas, Marlene Schüssler D’Aroz, Járci Maria Machado Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil Email: [email protected] Received 9 December 2014; accepted 20 December 2014; published 14 January 2015 Copyright © 2015 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract This research aims to highlight the importance of developing creativity in the school environment by promoting quality education to gifted students, with contributions from Vygotsky and Piaget. For Vygotsky creativity is inherent in the human condition, and it is the most important activity because it is the expression of consciousness, thought and language. It is the highest expression of subjectivity (Vygotsky, 2010). According to Piagetian theory, Stoltz (2013) points out that although the source of creativity is a mystery to Piaget, it manifests itself doubly: in the construction of knowledge structures and construction of real or structure and cognitive functioning. The method of this research is a bibliographic study of the area of high ability/giftedness, the cultural-his- torical theory of Vygotsky and Piaget’s genetic epistemology. We conclude that for Vygotsky (2008) as well as for Piaget (1968) the environment has essential importance to the development of creative potential. In the environment the child has his/her experiences that stimulate curiosity, desire to learn, fantasy and imagination. The teacher should enable gifted students to share their high abilities with their couple performing challenging activities in a stimulating and responsive environment. Keywords Gifted Students, High Ability 1. Introduction This study aims to highlight the importance of developing creativity in the school environment by promoting quality education for gifted students, with contributions from Vygotsky and Piaget. Recent studies using diffe- rent methods and theoretical approaches have indicated that gifted and high ability people are extremely creative How to cite this paper: Stoltz, T., Piske, F. H. R., de Freitas, M. F. Q., D’Aroz, M. S., & Machado, J. M. (2015). Creativity in Gifted Education: Contributions from Vygotsky and Piaget. Creative Education, 6, 64-70. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ce.2015.61005 T. Stoltz et al. (Alencar, 2001, 2007; Peterson, 2003; Renzulli, 2004; Pérez, 2004; Piske, 2011, 2013; Piske & Stoltz, 2012, 2013; Prieto, Soto, & Fernandez, 2013, Piske, Stoltz, & Machado, 2014a, among others). On the other hand, the literature has indicated that schools have difficulty in working to develop this characteristic (Winner, 1998; Alencar, 2001, 2007, 2009, 2011; Piske & Stoltz, 2013; Piske, Stoltz, & Machado, 2014b, among others). In the view of these authors, schools have shown themselves to be monotonous, using repetitive activities requiring reproduction of knowledge rather than the production of new knowledge. A widespread lack of preparation can be seen among teachers towards developing creativity at school. Development of creativity is essential, espe- cially in a globalized world in which information is available everywhere, and schools urgently need to keep pace with this if they are not to lose their raison d’être. What do Piaget and Vygotsky have to offer to the discussion in question? Both express the ideational move- ment of their time, of the modern age, at the same time going beyond their time. The intention is to understand creativity based on these two great theoretical authors, as well as the possibilities, based on these theories, for the education of high ability/gifted people. The theoretical discussion proposed in this study involves the area of high ability/giftedness, Vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory and Piaget’s genetic epistemology and psychology. This is justified based on the understanding that creativity should be the driving force of educational efforts, which in turn implies greater integration of art and its different manifestations in schools (Stoltz & Weger, 2012; Marjanovic-Shane, Connery, & John-Steiner, 2010). 2. Educating for Autonomy as Educating for Creativity in Piaget Despite Piaget strongly expressing that he did not have a fixed opinion about Pedagogy, the problem of educa- tion interested him intensely. Aware of the impossibility of the direct transposition between the data of his Ge- netic Epistemology and Psychology and education, he calls on pedagogues to develop and adjust techniques for a proposed form of active teaching. Piaget’s proposal aims to offer a series of devices for child experimentation and invention. Children would be guided through this process. In the words of Piaget, Education, seen from the current viewpoint, consists of attempting to transform children into the kind of adults existing in the society to which they belong. (...) Whereas for me education consists of producing creators, even if there are not many, even if the creations of one are limited in relation to those of the other. But the need exists to produce nonconformist inventors, innovators. (...) In different degrees, of course: but there is always a domain in which it can exist (Piaget in Bringuier, 1978: p. 183)... the great mistake made by some, was to go ahead with formalization before the time was right, with school students who, in no way whatsoever, had a method to assimilate (Piaget in Bringuier: p. 180). Contribute to the development of creators: that is the translation of education into the development of auton- omy in Piaget. Although the origin of creativity remains a mystery for Piaget, or the origin of talent, the most mysterious secret, Piaget understands cognitive development to be an essentially creative process. This form of understanding does not deny reality, but rather indicates that the problem of knowledge lies in the manner in which a person reconstructs reality. “Reality needs to be known, of course, but it needs to be reduced, through deduction and endogenous construction” (Piaget in Bringuier: p. 155). In this interactive and constructive proc- ess between the body and the environment, a new organ is created (cognitive structures) which regulates the ex- changes between the body and the environment (Piaget, 2003). In order to be built, cognitive structures depend on coordination between the following factors: organic maturation, as a condition of that which the body is ca- pable of; experience with physical objects; social experience and the self-regulating balancing process which coordinates the remaining factors (Piaget, 1936, 1937, 1964; Piaget & Inhelder, 2003). When Piaget sees the need to pay special attention to spontaneous development, he is not referring to that which is a product of empty verbalism, but to the coordination of social experience, physical experience and maturation through the organismic self-regulating equilibrium process, which is essentially creative but not vol- untary. Here we have an impasse: the aim of education is the development of autonomy, which in turn requires its own determination of the routes of its formation (Piaget, 2000). However, the result of a person’s creations depends, in the final analysis, on the equilibrium process, which is not voluntary. There are, therefore, internal limits in relation to that which is built autonomously through inter- action with the environment. Grasps of consciousness, as conceptual reconstitutions of what occurred in actions, represent the very domain of autonomy and creation in Piaget (1974a, 1974b). It represents an autonomous 65 T. Stoltz et al. self-regulated process. In actions, understanding is concentrated on the object and not on the mechanisms that made it possible to reach it, whereas grasp of consciousness involves interpretation and explanation of actions. Where is creativity here? It is in the manner in which a person rebuilds their actions, or in the production of more powerful logical structures “that permit the individual to act upon the world in more flexible and complex ways” (Gruber & Vonèche, 1995: p. xxxix). Piaget notes that autonomy of thought is only possible with effect from the formal operatory stage. With re- gard to cognitive structures based on rational logic and which imply new ideas, small children work with very limited possibilities and needs; whereas adolescents can see infinite possibilities which require necessary inte- grations. Nevertheless, Piaget notes that the period in which human cognition is most created, in terms of rapid- ness and fecundity, is between birth and eighteen months, prior to language, and takes the form of intelligence in action (Vonèche & Stoltz, 2007). Later, everything will be rebuilt on the level of thought and representation on the conceptual plane. For example, on the plane of representation, symbolic play’s own imagination allows imaginary situations to be invented and which have unconscious affective impulses. In symbolic play, the peak of childhood play, creations are the result of reality’s submission to the needs of self (Piaget, 1978). Piaget states that finding new ideas depends, first of all, on not reading anything about the subject and letting all ideas flow, however absurd they may appear.
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